Last updated: August 9, 2024
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Landscape Stewardship Corps
Interns help maintain parks and adapt them to climate change

NPS / Isabelle Bracewell
Autumn Davis replaces invasive vegetation with native plants and helps curb erosion at Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in Georgia. Kennedy Little cares for a historic apple orchard at Yosemite National Park in California. Nick Jackson tends venerable vegetable and gravesite gardens at Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in New York. Erick Contreras maintains grounds and machinery at Hampton National Historic Site in Maryland. Jacob Martin tests spring water and keeps up trails at Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas.

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“It's a fairly niche element of the job market where you're combining preservation, landscape maintenance and design, some construction, and then putting a historic lens over all of that. It’s an interdisciplinary field,” says Claire Finn, the National Park Service (NPS) manager who oversees the corps. “Teaching young people early in their careers about these opportunities and giving the training and skills so that they can become our next generation of employees who care for these spaces through climate change is critical."

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- chattahoochee river national recreation area
- hampton national historic site
- home of franklin d roosevelt national historic site
- hot springs national park
- yosemite national park
- youth
- nps youth programs
- youth programs
- nps careers
- ecosystem restoration
- cultural resources
- historic preservation
- ttap
- landscape stewardship
- american conservation experience
- cultural landscape preservation